There is a kind of good news and bad news for Barry fans, as Bill Hader revealed on his Thursday Late night with Seth Meyers appearance. The bad news is very familiar to people who like anything that involves groups of people close to screaming, since the March 2020 table with the first two episodes of the third season was the last time Hader, Henry Winkler, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan and the gang worked together in any capacity. As with everything else this past year devastated by the pandemic, the good news is of the frank variety, in which the forced hiatus gave Hader and Barry co-creator Alec Berg is time to write not only the entire third season, but also to close the scripts for the entire fourth season. Noting that the end of the second season involved the seemingly inevitable and threatening type of anguish in the series Barry (and Barry) is known for, Hader told his friend Meyers that at least this extra time allowed him and Berg a chance to really discover how their anti-hero actor / killer could get out of [redacted].
Keeping busy writing two entire seasons of his Emmy-winning television is one thing, but Hader also shared with Meyers how his increasingly troubled three daughters are going through the block, as they have finally managed to ask their father the tough questions. Like, your eleven-year-old son emerging from any version of the school playground at home is to tell her dad about the scandalous rumor she heard that he was on some kind of TV show called Saturday Night Live? It’s true, kid, while Hader shared how some of his carefully selected sketches of greatest hits (all written, unsurprisingly, by SNL writers John Solomon and Rob Klein) went all the way. Puppet class? Of course, what child does not like to see his father playing with puppets? Effeminate fireman angry at the cancellation of Don’t trust B—— apartment 23 sketch? Do not understand. Stefon? “Um, are you going to laugh at all of this?”, Hader reports that his oldest daughter asked with critical skepticism. Difficult family room.
With an ex SNL a veteran in the house (or in the version of the interview at home), the questions of former editor Meyers invariably led to the discussion of those favorite sketches that never arrived, for whatever reason. Or all the reasons, like when another musical sketch by Solomon-Klein-Hader called “Song For Daddy, ”Which, among other catastrophes in the dress rehearsal, almost killed the then emerging teen idol and host of that week, Justin Bieber. According to Hader, this may not have been a great loss, but all the young Bieber fans screaming probably wouldn’t have been very receptive to the sight of their favorite singer being unceremoniously flattened by the stage that almost toppled over his frozen ends. “He ate,” admitted Hader, able to laugh about the disaster now that no one really died in it.
Barry will come back when we all start acting together.